L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Nominations

On April 2, L.A. Weekly will honor the best work on our small stages from 2011 at the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards. Lauren Ludwig directs music/sketch comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio, hosts of the Greek bash at the Avalon in Hollywood. The event will be a replication of the first-ever theater awards ceremony, circa 450 B.C., honoring Dionysus, god of fertility and wine.

The dress code is togas (if you insist on bringing out that leather jacket or cocktail dress, be sure to tuck your toga underneath it). Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:30. Buffet after. Come party with us. Tickets cost $25 and will go on sale Feb. 23. Nominees may RSVP at any time at the Theater Awards hotline: (310) 574-7208. To find out if you are a nominee, click here.

This year's nominees, as voted by our theater critics, are as follows:

PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR

Blackbird, Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater

Day Drinkers, Gary Guidinger, Linda Toliver and the Odyssey Theatre

Small Engine Repair, Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater

The War Cycle: Gospel

According to the First Squad, Los

Angeles Theatre Ensemble at Powerhouse Theatre

Way to Heaven, Odyssey Theatre

REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF

THE YEAR (of a 20th- or 21st-century work)

All My Sons, Matrix Theatre Company

4.48

Psychosis, City Garage

at Bergamot Station, Track 16 Gallery

Camino Real, Theatre @ Boston Court/CalArts School

of Theater

The Crucible, Theatre Banshee

A House Not Meant to

Stand, Fountain Theatre

Peace in Our Time, Antaeus Company

Room Service, Open Fist Theatre Company

MUSICAL OF THE YEAR

Bash'd, Celebration Theatre

Cyclops:A

Rock Opera, Psittacus

Productions at Son of Semele/Pasadena Playhouse

Gypsy, West Coast Ensemble at Theatre of Arts

Hey, Morgan!, Black Dahlia Theatre

Re-Animator The Musical, Red Hen Productions and Schramm Group LLC at the Steve Allen Theater

DIRECTION

Lindsay Allbaugh, 100 Saints You Should Know, Elephant Theater Company

Bernardo Bernardo, The Romance of Magno Rubio, PAE Live

at [Inside] the Ford

Andrew Block, Small

Engine Repair

Robin Larsen, Blackbird

Paul Plunkett, Endgame, Sacred Fools Theater Company

Ron Sossi, Way

to Heaven

DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

Louis Butelli, Cyclops:

A Rock Opera

Stuart Gordon, Re-Animator The Musical

Richard Israel, Gypsy

Ameenah Kaplan, Bash'd

Matt Shackman, Hey,

Morgan!

Rick Sparks, I

Love Lucy Live on Stage,

Greenway Court Theatre

COMEDY DIRECTION

Bart DeLorenzo,

Day

Drinkers

Bart DeLorenzo, Margo

Veil, Odyssey Theatre/Evidence Room

Denise Devin, Turbo

Tartuffe, Zombie Joe's

Underground

Bjorn Johnson and Ron Orbach, Room Service

Rob Mersola, Love

Sucks, Springtime 4 and

East 4th Street Productions at Coast Playhouse

Tim Byron Owen, The

Walworth Farce, Theatre

Banshee

MUSICAL DIRECTION

Peter Adams, Re-Animator

The Musical

DJ Jedi, Bash'd

Richard Levinson, Peace in Our Time

Wayne Moore, I

Love Lucy Live on Stage

David O, The

Cradle Will Rock, Blank

Theatre Company at Stella Adler Theatre

ENSEMBLE

The Crucible

Hermetically Sealed, Katselas Theatre Company at Skylight

Theatre

9

Circles, Bootleg Theater

Small Engine Repair

The Romance of Magno

Rubio

What's Wrong With

Angry?, Celebration Theatre

The War Cycle: Gospel

According to the First Squad

MUSICAL ENSEMBLE

Bash'd

The Cradle Will Rock

Having It All, NoHo Arts Center

I Love Lucy Live on

Stage

Re-Animator The Musical

COMEDY ENSEMBLE

D Is for Dog, Rogue Artists Ensemble at Studio/Stage

Day Drinkers

Margo Veil

Pulp Shakespeare, Theatre Asylum

Room Service

Turbo Tartuffe

The Walworth Farce

LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Michelle Clunie, The Mercy Seat, Vs. Theatre Company at [Inside] the

Ford

Maria Gobetti, Sex

and Education, Victory

Theatre Center

Sandy Martin, A

House Not Meant to Stand

Amanda Weir, Room

Service

Jacqueline Wright, House of Gold, Ensemble Studio Theatre/L.A. at the

Atwater Village Theatre

LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE

Jon Jon Briones, The Romance of Magno Rubio

Matthew Goodrich/Chris Chiquet, Camino Real

Jim Hanna, Othello, The Production Company/Action! Theatre Company at Lex Theatre

John D. Johnston, Dirt, Rogue

Machine and Firefly: Theater & Films at Theatre/Theater

Brian Norris, The

Woodpecker, Mutineer

Theatre Company at Studio/Stage

Leon Russom, Endgame

Norbert Weisser, Way to Heaven

SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Kate Huffman, 100

Saints You Should Know

Lynne Odell, Alceste, Theatre of NOTE

Julia Prud'homme, Alceste

Lisa Richards, A

House Not Meant to Stand

Pamela Roylance, 100 Saints You Should Know

Tamara Zook, The

Woodpecker

SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE

Ramn DeOcampo, The Malcontent, Antaeus Company

David Fraioli, Endgame

Michael McGee, Way

to Heaven

Marco Naggar, 100

Saints You Should Know

TWO-PERSON PERFORMANCE

Bakersfield Mist (Jenny O'Hara and Nick Ullett), Fountain

Theatre

Blackbird (Sam Anderson and Corryn Cummins)

The Old Lady Shows Her

Medals, from Barrie, Back to Back (Penny Safranek and Joe McGovern), Pacific